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5 Ways To Protect Your Idea From Theft

YoungUpstarts

With the constantly increasing ease in which information can be shared, it’s becoming harder for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to secure their business ideas to ensure competitors or other people do not unfairly steal them. Try to answer these questions: What kind of reputation does the investor have in the finance industry?

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The Importance of Partnership Agreements, NDAs, and Security: Lessons from HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

Up and Running

While this is a great arrangement for Erlich and his modest finances, it’s a terrible idea for Big Head, and probably for most business partnerships. Violating non-disclosure agreements. You can learn more about non-disclosure agreements here. Poor physical security.

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In my opinion, that’s why micro-finance has rarely worked, even for loans. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited.

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Is Crowd-Funding the Answer When Investors Decline?

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In my opinion, that’s why micro-finance has rarely worked, even for loans. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited.

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Don’t Count on Crowd-Funding to Save Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In my opinion, that’s why micro-finance has rarely worked, even for loans. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited.

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

Gust

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In my opinion, that’s why micro-finance has rarely worked, even for loans. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited.

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Crowd-Funding is a Bad Approach for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The administration of legal conditions, signatures, disclosures, and distributions is a nightmare. In my opinion, that’s why micro-finance has rarely worked, even for loans. In all cases, to keep non-professionals attention, the content of the offer online, or pitch presented, is very limited.